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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791164803321

Autore

Foster Jeremy (Jeremy A.), <1955->

Titolo

Washed with sun : landscape and the making of white South Africa / / Jeremy Foster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2008

©2008

ISBN

0-8229-8035-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 p.)

Disciplina

700.968

Soggetti

Landscapes in art

Arts and society - South Africa - History - 20th century

Landscapes - Psychological aspects

White people - Race identity - South Africa

South Africa In art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: landscape, character, and analogical imagination -- From imperialism to nationalism: South Africanism and the politics of white nationhood -- Visual representation, discursive landscape, and "a simple life in a genial climate" -- Between corporeality and representation: theoretical and methodological excursus -- Baden-Powell and the Siege of Mafeking: the enactment of mythical place -- John Buchan's Hesperides: the aesthetics of improvement on the highveld -- Prospect, materiality, and the horizons of potentiality on Parktown Ridge -- Mrs. Everard's lonely career: the Komati Valley and the depiction of nostalgic displacement -- Modernity, memory, and the South African railways: the iconography of emptiness -- The life and afterlife of a contrapuntal subjectivity.

Sommario/riassunto

South Africa is recognized as a site of both political turmoil and natural beauty, and yet little work has been done in connecting these defining national characteristics. Washed with Sun; achieves this conjunction in its multidisciplinary study of South Africa as a space at once natural and constructed. Weaving together practical, aesthetic, and ideological analyses, Jeremy Foster examines the role of landscape in forming the



cultural iconographies and spatialities that shaped the imaginary geography of emerging nationhood.; Looking in particular at the years following the British victory in